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American Journalism
Volume 26(2), 2009

 
CONTENTS
 
Gamache, Ray Sport as cultural assimilation: Representations of American Indian athletes in the Carlisle school newspaper. 7-37
 
  The article analyzes archival Carlisle school newspapers to demonstrate how the institution used news representations of athletics and recreation to foster assimilationist aims 
 
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race and ethnicity
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Roessner, Lori Amber Hero creating in Sporting Life, an early baseball journal. 39-65
 
  By the turn of the twentieth century, organized baseball had emerged as America's national pastime with larger-than-life heroes enshrined in mythic lore 
 
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Gillis, William "Rebellion in the Kingdom of Swat": Sportswriters, African American athletes, and coverage of Curt Flood's lawsuit against major league baseball. 67-97
 
  In 1970, baseball star Curt Flood sued Major League Baseball in an effort to change the game's free agency rules 
 
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Peterson, Jason A 'race' for equality: Print media coverage of the 1968 olympic protest by Tommie Smith and John Carlos. 99-121
 
  During the Summer Olympics in 1968, Tommie Smith and John Carlos made history 
 
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